Job Description:
Teacher - Full Time - Reading Specialist 2026-2026 School Year
40 hours/week; 10 month position
CT Certification required
Ben Bronz Academy is a State of Connecticut approved special education day school for students in grades 1-12 with learning disabilities. Our goal is to help students with learning disabilities learn to identify and correct their functional weaknesses and to develop strong, spontaneous thinking habits that build self-confidence and foster greater curiosity and enthusiasm for learning. We believe that every student deserves the chance to succeed. We enable bright children who have a learning disability to achieve academic success and strengthen their curiosity, perseverance, patience, self-reliance, motivation, and focus. We have a 3:1 student to teacher ratio and a proven, structured, individualized program.
Job Summary:
To effectively assess and diagnose student literacy needs, design and deliver intentional early intervention or remedial reading/writing instruction through small groups, progress monitor student achievement, and actively collaborate and coordinate with classroom teachers around student achievement.
Essential Job Functions/Duties/Responsibilities:
- Identifies students' specific areas of academic need; administers diagnostic assessments; analyzes data to create and implement a program of early intervention or remediation that includes goal setting and progress monitoring
- Helps teachers organize flexible groupings within the classrooms for small group instruction/intervention
- Works collaboratively with teachers and staff to support the connection between core classroom instruction and interventions
- Helps coordinate Academy assessments
- Uploads, manages, and analyzes student data
- Participates in regular data team meetings and ppt meetings as needed
- Communicates with parents concerning individual students
- Keeps informed of current trends and practices in reading instruction through professional reading, workshops and conferences and shares their learning with others
- Demonstrates and models best practices around remedial, small group, and differentiated reading instruction
- Maintains literacy center or location for various literacy materials
Professional Requirements:
- Implement school policies and rules governing student life and conduct
- Promote and uphold goals and objectives of the Academy
- Demonstrate an understanding of research and potential applications of educational technology in learning
- Participate in committees for the operation or improvement of the Academy
- Serve as a professional resource to other staff members
- Demonstrate an on-going interest in educational changes and professional growth
- Uphold the ethics of the teaching profession (CT Code of Professional Responsibility for Teachers)
- Maintain confidentiality regarding personal student and family information
- Other appropriate responsibilities as assigned by the Education Director
Specific Responsibilities:
Provide assessment, direct instruction, peer coaching and consultation to improve literacy outcomes for students. Work collaboratively with teachers in planning literacy instruction.
- Lead teams in the instruction, assessment, and strategic implementation of interventions in literacy
- Work directly with teachers in classrooms to implement highly effective and proven instructional practices
- Lead staff in analyzing student data and developing instructional plans to address students' strengths and needs
- Design and implement PD for all staff
- Cultivate and maintain resources and materials to support teaching and learning in related areas
- Work with staff to strengthen their ability to differentiate instruction
- Consult with teachers to improve their classroom effectiveness
- Support effective programming, teaching, and learning in related areas of study or research
- Organize formative and summative assessments and results, including benchmark and state/national assessments
- Perform other tasks as appropriately assigned
If you are interested in applying, please email a cover letter, resume, 3 letters of recommendation, and a copy of your certification to gail@benbronzacademy.org
More information about our school can be found on our website at: www.benbronzacademy.org
Ben Bronz Academy is an equal opportunity employer.